Golf: The Teacher

It is not quite accurate to say that Ross Sobel
has been playing pro golf for 49 years without ever winning a
tournament. In 1922, he beat Willie MacFarlane for a new suit of
clothes in the John David Invitationala pitch-and-putt tournament
that was played in midtown Manhattan on the cutting floor of a men's
clothing store. "It wasn't as easy as it sounds," says Sobel. "The
greens were trapped with buckets of sand and water, and I had to shoot
a 40-ft. hole-in-one to win."